Word: bakes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Pillsbury Mills' President Paul S. Gerot thinks that nothing promotes flour sales like a baking contest. Last week, for the finals of its annual contest, Pillsbury brought 100 winners, including one man and four boys, to Manhattan to compete for $129,000 in prizes in its Grand National Bake-Off. They were given flour-sack aprons, assigned to stoves in the Waldorf-Astoria's grand ballroom and allowed a day to make their favorite recipes. Mrs. Richard M. Nixon, wife of the Vice President-elect, announced the winner: Mrs. Peter S. Harlib, 46, wife of a Chicago policeman...
...maids, or "goodies," as they were called to 1920, have been a College institution for 270 years. During that time, they have been known to bake cakes, sew buttons, care for ill students, and help solve girl problems. Many alumni have referred to them as "the Harvard man's mother away from home...
...Enamelstrip Corp. in Allentown, Pa. last week clambered Lehigh County Judge John H. Diefenderfer. There he sniffed suspiciously at the company's chimney. For months, nearby residents had been after an injunction against Enamelstrip as a public nuisance for the stench given off by its ovens (which bake enamel on to metal at 500° Fahrenheit). Judge Diefenderfer, after several judicious sniffs, said: "I can't smell a thing...
...with one or two of them on short time, they're down to two or three." At the grocery store down the street, Bolton housewives were no longer buying their full egg ration (one per week). A big bakery, supplying Bolton's suburbs, cut its daily bake by 1,000 loaves...
Some plays are realistic and others present symbols or messages. A Little Evil, however, is a meatpie. The farcical lines, moralistic sermons, and Ozark philosophy mouthed by its characters are lacking in both humor and artistic insight. Unfortunately the playwrite, Alexander Greendale, is unable to bake his potpourri into a very theatrical dish...